By John Gruber
WorkOS — Agents need context. Ship the integrations that give it to them.
Linked List: February 4, 2015
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
- Leaked Photos of Samsung Galaxy S6 Look a Lot Like iPhone 6 ★
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Lisa Eadicicco, writing for Business Insider:
French blog Nowhereelse.fr, which leaked several photos of the iPhone 6 that turned out to be accurate before its launch, has posted a set of images that supposedly show the Galaxy S6’s metal chassis.
If you look at the frame’s edges in the photo shown below, you’ll notice they’re slightly rounded just like that of the iPhone 6.
At the same time, sources to The Korea Times say the Galaxy S6 will “look a lot like Apple’s iPhone 6.”
Leaked photos certainly aren’t reliable, but this makes sense. Samsung rose to prominence with their iPhone-lookalike early Galaxy S models. Apple sued them and was awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. But then, as Samsung’s designs have diverged from Apple’s, Samsung has faltered in the market. So back to what worked before: copying Apple shamelessly and accepting the eventual legal losses and the public perception that Samsung is a blatant copycat as a cost of doing business.
- ‘Riding Light’ ★
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Eye-opening film by Alphonse Swinehart:
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective.